GENEALOGY SUNDAY

Once in a very rare time, no one comes to Sunday dinner. This happened today. Glo went to Julie's and all the kids were doing their own thing or with their in-laws. SOOOOOOO.... we were able to go to our Sacrament meeting at the branch, teach in the jail and at the work center for several hours, make a big breakfast, go for a long walk, get rained on and run for home, have a nap, go home teaching, barbeque steaks, clean up, get organized for the coming week AND spend hours turning this.....

and this....into this....and this!

Don't worry, all you Johnston/Bingham decendants out there. We are following in the footsteps of Jay Rulon and Blair A and we are doing our genealogy. We are taking a bunch of random, badly duplicated records, most handwritten, and we are loading them in PAF or Personal Ancestry File. We started a year ago and loaded this system on our computer and have been learning by trial and error ever since. It is very spiritual to record these names and dates and information into the computer. I feel close to each person when I see that they traveled from Norway, Denmark, England, Belgium, etc. to gather with the saints. They settle in Hyde Park or Hyrum or Hooper and die there after marrying and raising faithful families. Michael sorts through the paper work patiently and reads me the data as I enter it. It is sometimes a puzzle and we want to learn more and check on some things that we have entered. When we are done, you can just load this on your computer and voila! much of your work is done. I need endowment dates from all my children and their spouses except Carly. You just ask your ward to print out your personal records and everything will be on there. Then, we can check to make sure we have entered all your dates correctly. We would love it if you could get this and give us a copy.